I am Centre co-director (Digital Cultures), and Associate Dean (Research Cultures) in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In the Edinburgh Futures Institute, I am co-director of the MSc in Education Futures. I also teach on the MSc in Digital Education, and I am a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interests include education and cultural heritage futures, speculative methods, online distance education, digital cultural heritage learning, open education and digital cultures. I supervise masters and PhD students in these and related areas.
Professor Jen Ross
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New project: Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage
Funded by the Creative Informatics AHRC Creative Cluster programme, this project imagines possible futures for Digital Cultural Heritage infrastructure given current conversations regarding audience, resourcing, governance, and stages of technological development.
Graduation: MSc Education Futures
On Friday 1 December, the first cohort of students graduated from the MSc in Education Futures, which is offered through the Edinburgh Futures Institute
Teaching Scotland article 'AI:opportunity or threat?'
Dr Jen Ross and Dr Ben Williamson are referenced in the latest Teaching Scotland publication.
In conversation: Dr Jen Ross
The National Centre for Research Methods brought together Professor Mike Michael (University of Exeter) and Dr Jen Ross to discuss speculative and prospective methods in social science research with a focus on their latest books.
Contributions to the Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education
Research centre contributions to the Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education
Keynote: Learnovation 2023
Dr Jen Ross will deliver a keynote presentation at Learnovation 2023 in Dublin on 5th October
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Projects
Towards embedding responsible AI in the school system: co-creation with young people
Bridging the divide between principles of explainability, fairness and privacy as they apply to educational AI, and the values, hopes and concerns of young people when faced with emerging technologies.
AI futures for Scottish education
AI Futures for Scottish education addresses an urgent need to address the rapid emergence of generative AI technologies, and to consider the ethical and educational issues raised as teachers and students experiment with its capabilities
Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage
What do we mean when we talk about infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage research? How can we get a better understanding of current priorities, concerns and hopes by imagining and collectively scrutinising possibilities for the future?
Higher Education Futures
Eight speculative scenarios exploring the future of higher education teaching.
Digital Footprints and Search Pathways
Working with National Collections in Scotland during Covid-19 lockdown to design future online provision.
Co-designing with Speculative Data Stories: Higher Education After Surveillance
A new, digital approach to working with stakeholders in higher education to understand and shape data futures and surveillance practices in universities.